I will start out by saying that I am not a vegan and therefore I have not experimented much with vegan desserts or substitutions. I do have friends who avoid dairy and/or gluten and/or eggs, so I have dabbled a little bit with vegan swaps, but I am by no means an expert. So, for this post, I asked a friend for a few suggestions as to what vegan blogs she’s had success making baked goods from and what she knows about baking vegan desserts.
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Chocolate desserts: decadent, rich, deep, sweet—there are so many ways to describe them. Chocolate is romantic, dramatic, purported to have healing properties, and is absolutely delicious. The wonderful flavor is representative of devotion and love. Chocolate can come in so many forms that even those who don’t consider themselves chocolate fanatics almost always find a chocolate treat to love. So to all the chocolate lovers’ out there—this list of chocolate desserts is for you.
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Thank you to everyone to who sent me baking questions on Instagram last week. There were hundreds of questions, so I’m compiling a few posts to answer as much of them as I can. This one focuses on questions about pie and crust and there are also posts about Baking Homemade Bread, Cake Baking and Decorating, Meringue, vegan desserts, Pies and Pie Crust and Equipment. If you have additional questions about pie or pie crust, please leave me a comment and I’ll get to as many of them as I can!
I also have a guide to making pie crust for you to check out!
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Thank you to everyone to sent me baking questions on Instagram this week. There were hundreds of questions, so I’m compiling a few posts to answer as much of them as I can. This one focuses on questions about meringue and there are also posts about Baking Homemade Bread, Cake Baking and Decorating and Pies and Pie Crust, Vegan Desserts, Equipment, and more.
Find my answers and related recipes below:
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A New Year’s resolution doesn’t have to be about giving something up, it can be about setting out to create new things. What if we shake things up a bit and resolve to get into the kitchen to try a new cooking or baking technique this year? No matter where you are in your baking journey, there’s always something new to learn. That’s one of the things I love most about this craft.
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I love to look back each year and see what you’ve enjoyed baking most. Here are the top 12 recipes on zoebakes.com in 2021. One thing is for sure: you love pavlova just as much as I do!
On Instagram my most liked recipe this year was my Blueberry Bars!
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